{"id":946,"date":"2016-10-17T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/?p=946"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:08:19","slug":"puppet-masters-wide-angle-for-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/puppet-masters-wide-angle-for-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Masters &#8211; Wide Angle for Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought of using wide angle for action shots. My 16-35L f\/2.8 is my landscape lens -or so I thought until I saw the presentation on news photography. I was amazed at how this lens places you in the action. My normal weapon of choice is the 24-70 f\/2.8 Mk2. I happened to stumble on the Red Bull PuppetMasters Wake Boarding event after shooting my morning landscapes. I did not have my ideal sports camera (1Dx) but armed with new my knowledge on the autofocus system I decided the 5dMK3 could pull it off. I took special care when firing off at the action knowing that I had a different buffer capacity and fps than the 7D2\/1Dx.And a black and white seemed appropriate given the Puppet Masters theme.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_0770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-303 hd-full\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_0770-580x386.jpg\" alt=\"Matti Buys - Take Off\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" data-full-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_0770.jpg\" data-large-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_0770.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matti Buys &#8211; Take Off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-304 hd-full\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1030-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"Kaylib Louw\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" data-full-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1030.jpg\" data-large-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1030.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaylib Louw\u00a0The results I hope make you feel you were there. I went as close as I could to the action and tried to get under the riders.The falling action was also quite impressive &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-305 hd-full aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1007.jpg\" alt=\"5D3_20150425_1007\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" data-full-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1007.jpg\" data-large-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1007.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-306 hd-full aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1175.jpg\" alt=\"5D3_20150425_1175\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" data-full-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1175.jpg\" data-large-rendition=\"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5D3_20150425_1175.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought of using wide angle for action shots. My 16-35L f\/2.8 is my landscape lens -or so I thought until I saw the presentation on news photography. I was amazed at how this lens places you in the action. My normal weapon of choice is the 24-70 f\/2.8 Mk2. I happened to stumble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,100,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lifesmomentz.com\/lmzwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}